Freeze trauma response

It seems that a lot of peoples most common trauma response is *freeze*.

Americans feel helpless. Learned helplessness might also be considered a trauma freeze response.

The first action one must take is to become aware of the potential for freezing. Once you recognize it you can start listening to the freeze and responding to your own body and how it wants/needs to unfreeze.

It’s critical that we all learn to unfreeze now. Look/feel within and follow your heart. Your heart knows the way out of freeze. Your journey out of freeze will be your own.

Trust/feel your body and respond. Get creative. It’s within us all.

The body is the only way back to humanity.

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Learn more about freeze trauma response and the body

• Trauma and the body
• The body as poetry…
• The body is the gateway — Rick Beldon
• The soft animal of the body — Will Meechum
• Jewels hidden in the dark soil of the body — Matt Licata
• The body releases trauma and restores goodness
• Radical insights on the physical body
• healing is about letting the wisdom of the body re-emerge (and other reflections)

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